Enterprise Logic at the Frontline: Better Regulation and the Advisory Turn
This article examines how Better Regulation has introduced an enterprise logic into United Kingdom (UK) Trading Standards (TS), reshaping inspectors’ roles alongside traditional enforcement logic. It argues that enterprise logic, combined with austerity and localism, creates ambiguities and tensions...
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| Dans: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/irpp, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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International Review of Public Policy
2026
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | This article examines how Better Regulation has introduced an enterprise logic into United Kingdom (UK) Trading Standards (TS), reshaping inspectors’ roles alongside traditional enforcement logic. It argues that enterprise logic, combined with austerity and localism, creates ambiguities and tensions that inspectors negotiate in their work with SMEs. Drawing on accounts from 18 inspectors in three English counties, the findings show that while inspectors integrate advice within enforcement practices, constrained resources, conflicting logics, and the commodification of advice generate tensions that undermine regulatory consistency and legitimacy. The study extends institutional theory and policy implementation scholarship by showing how enterprise and enforcement logics coexist, collide, and are negotiated in frontline practice, and contributes to debates on Better Regulation by highlighting its practical contradictions and implications for policy implementation and regulatory practice. |
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